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There's the Rose Bowl, the Orange Bowl and now, the AutoNation Cure Bowl. AutoNation, the auto retailer based in Fort Lauderdale, will sponsor a college football bowl game starting next year, with a portion of proceeds going to the Breast Cancer Research Foundation, the company announced Thursday. The AutoNation Cure Bowl will pit NCAA teams from the American Athletic Conference and Sunbelt Conference at the Citrus Bowl Stadium in downtown Orlando, the kickoff to a season of nearly three dozen bowl games. AutoNation expects the bowl to contribute at least $1 million to the foundation in its first two editions. The company has a contract as the title sponsor for an initial two...

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There's the Rose Bowl, the Orange Bowl and now, the AutoNation Cure Bowl.
AutoNation, the auto retailer based in Fort Lauderdale, will sponsor a college football bowl game starting next year, with a portion of proceeds going to the Breast Cancer Research...

CORAL GABLES — For the Miami Hurricanes and their new quarterback, the journey to this moment began a decade ago.
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Sept. 1 at Louisville at 8 p.m. on ESPN: The Hurricanes have said they are eager to avenge their loss to the Cardinals in the Russell Athletic Bowl that capped the 2013 season.
Sept. 6 vs. Florida A&M at 7 p.m. on ESPN3.com: FAMU is very much in...

If you take a look at the list of athletic department revenues published by USA Today on Tuesday, you might notice a trend.
Take a look at the top of the list — those are the haves. Big names, big conferences, big cash. They earn it, they burn it, and...

We in the media business like to think that we have an idea of what will happen this fall when college football finally kicks off, but truth be told, our bubble is one injury or upset away from being popped.
But it's fun to try to predict the future, and...

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It appears the bowl schedule will get a little more crowded as Tucson, Arizona and Little Rock, Arkansas are the latest cities to reportedly host a bowl game in 2015.
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UConn scored three runs in the ninth inning to rally to a 5-3 victory over Tulane on Sunday afternoon in an American Athletic Conference baseball game in New Orleans.The win clinched the first AAC series of the year for the Huskies (17-9, 2-1) and...

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"I put them in a safe in the bank . . . so I won't lose it because it's very valuable to me,"...

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Fans finally got their first glimpse at the new coaching faces peppering the UCF football sidelines Wednesday as spring drills kicked off.
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Larry Brown discovered something about his new iPhone when SMU finally ended its two-decade NCAA Tournament drought. "I didn't realize how many text messages it would accept, so that kept me kind of busy," the 74-year-old Hall of Fame coach...

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Southern Methodist, the regular-season American Athletic Conference champions, held off Connecticut, 62-54, to also win the league's tournament title Sunday at Hartford, Conn.
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